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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) confirmed launch dates this week for its highly anticipated next-gen CPU and GPU architectures, sparking several rumors about the offerings.
AMD announcement: AMD announced the dates in a tweet that revealed very little details outside of the release dates.
“A new era of computing and graphics leadership performance is approaching. The journey begins on October 8,” AMD said in the tweet.
A new era of computing and graphics leadership performance is approaching. The journey begins on October 8. pic.twitter.com/58I288iN30
– AMD (@AMD) September 9, 2020
Wait for Zen 3 to finish on October 8: The Zen 3 CPU architecture will be revealed on October 8.
The architecture is reportedly based on the 7nm node, as with previous hardware.
The chip configurations could be rearranged, especially in the L3 cache.
Since there is no node reduction, some significant architectural improvement over Zen 2 could be expected, AnandTech reported.
Desktop CPUs based on the Zen 3 architecture would be branded Ryzen 4000 and mobile processors with the new architecture would be branded Ryzen 5000.
Recently, rival Intel launched its 11th generation Tiger Lake mobile processor, which analysts say offers high performance with low power consumption.
New GPU architecture, big Navi launch to follow: AMD said the RDNA2 GPU architecture is scheduled for release on October 28.
AMD # RDNA2 The architecture and Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards will bring the best of Radeon to gamers around the world. More information on October 28. pic.twitter.com/CZJRxTBe6m
– Radeon RX (@Radeon) September 9, 2020
The GPU based on this new architecture is called Big Navi, and it will face From NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) Ampere-based GPU, which was announced but has yet to be released.
AMD’s Big Navi promises big performance and efficiency gains, along with feature parity with Nvidia in terms of ray tracing support, Tom’s Hardware reported.
It remains to be seen how Big Navi compares to Nvidia’s RTX 30 series Ampere-based GPUs in both price and performance.
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